Psychology Emotion and Motivation- Quiz 2

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  Self-Actualization, Esteem Needs, Belongingness and love needs, safety net, physiological needs
• 4 components of emotons

  Physiological, cognitive, physical/behavioural
• Loss Aversion


  care more about avoiding losses than achieving equal-size gains
• Avoidance Motivation

  avoid negative outcomes
• Approach Motivation


  experience positive outcomes
• Unconscious motivation


  not aware
• Conscious Motivation


  people are aware
• Extrinsic Motivation


  a motivation to take actions that are not themselves rewarding but that lead to reward
• Intrinsic Motivation


  a motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding
• 4 phases of sexual desire

  Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, Resolution
• Types of Eating Disorders

  Binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, obesity
• Best Strategy for regulating ones emotions

  Reappraisal
• Hedonic principle

  idea that people are primarily motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain
• Drive-Reduction Theory

  the primary motivation of all organisms is to reduce their drives
• Homeostasis

  the tendency for a system to take action to keep itself in equalibrium
• Instinct

  the natural motivation to seek a particular goal
• Motivation

  the internal causes of purposeful behaviour
• Neutralizing

  Showing no expression of the emotion one is feeling
• Masking

  Expressing one emotion while feeling another
• Deintensification

  muting the expression of ones emotion
• Intensification

  Exaggerating the expression of emotion
• Display Rule

  A norm for the appropirate expression of emotion
• Facial Feedback Hypothesis

  emotional expression can cause the emotional experiences they typically signify
• The Amygdala

  a threat detector. Fast pathway and slow pathway
• 6 Basic Emotions

  Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Surprise
• Universality Hypothesis

  all emotion expressions mean the same thing to all people in all places at all times
• An Emotional Expression

  An observable sign of an emotional state
• Two-Factor Theory of Emotion

  stimuli trigger a general state of physiological arousal, which is then interpreted as a specific emotion
• James-Lange Theory of Emotion

  feelings are simply the perception of ones own physiological response to a stimulus
• Action Tendencies

  a readiness to engage in a specific set of emotion-relevant behaviours
• Appraisal

  conscious or unconscious evaluations and interpretations of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus or event